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HEROES ON THE FRONTLINES
Above and Beyond
In spring 2020, when The Public Matters, a Teachers College-based public opinion survey, asked whom Americans trusted most to shape the nation鈥檚 response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the answer, overwhelmingly, was frontline health care providers 鈥� the people fighting the disease day in and day out.
It was another reminder of our society鈥檚 dependence, especially during a crisis, on its 鈥渜uiet professionals鈥� 鈥� essential service providers whose allegiance is to their work and those whom they serve.
From the pandemic鈥檚 first days, 麻豆原创 faculty, trustees, students and, perhaps most of all, alumni have worked on the frontlines in education, health and psychology, sometimes putting their lives on the line.
Here are some of their stories.